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Wang Gungwu is emeritus professor at Australian National University and university professor at the National University of Singapore. Margaret Wang was educated at the University of Malaya, Homerton College, Cambridge, and the Australian National University. She was head of the English Department at the Malayan Teachers' College."[An] absorbing memoir of [an] outstanding scholar and exemplar of a humble cosmopolitanism that is becoming rare."
Inside Story
“By filling in gaps on what we know about Chinese, Southeast Asian and Chinese overseas history, Wang’s work will continue to be drawn on to understand China’s most recent rise and engagement with the world, as well as new waves of Chinese migration.”
Sojourn
"Wang Gungwu, a global Chinese historian and former president of the University of Hong Kong, wrote the story of his "long and semi-nomadic career" at the age of nearly 90. His life began in Southeast Asia during the colonial era. He experienced colonization, war, turmoil, revolution, and migrated between three continents for most of his life, which constituting a rich and unique wandering history in the historical torrents of twentieth century."
Yazhou Zhoukan
Wang Gungwu, historian of grand themes and broad perspectives, has held positions in universities around the world, from London and Cambridge to Kuala Lumpur, Canberra, Hong Kong and Singapore. This second volume of his memoirs, written with his wife Margaret, continues the very personal story begun in Home is Not Here.
Wang’s account of his years at the University of Malaya, captures the excitement, the ambition — and the naïveté — of young English-educated elites being prepared for leadership by the departing colonial power. He introduces us to some outstanding personalities of this founding generation of two nations, including young medical student Mahathir Mohamad.
We also see these years from Margaret’s perspective, her own fascinating family story, and her impressions of this young bearded poet. The exploration of the emotional and intellectual journey towards the formation of an identity, treasured by readers of Home is Not Here, extends in this volume into an appreciation of love, family life, and the life of the mind.
Wise and moving, this is a fascinating reflection on identity and belonging, and on the ability of the individual to find a place amidst the historical currents that have shaped Asia and the world.
- Part One: Fitting In
- Soft Landing
- A Mixed Start
- Whose Literature?
- Verse Making
- Free to Enjoy
- Manila Alert
- Part Two: My New Frame
- What is a Nation?
- Colony
- Political Education
- Part Three: Pairing Lives
- Meeting Margaret
- Mother Tung
- Father Lim
- Learn to Share
- Part Four: Double Vision
- World of Learning
- Distant History
- Why 10th Century
- Meeting Sinology Halfway
- EngLit England
- Part Five: Make a Family
- Reunion, Marriage
- Cambridge to London
- Birth of a Baby
- Part Six: Great Place to Work
- Closer to Home
- Move to KL
- Whose Region?
- Part Seven: Globalizing?
- Enter the Cold War
- New World Report
- East Coast Centres
- Margaret's America
- Malaysia
- Producing A Survey
- Part Eight: Roots
- Three Generations
- We Build a House
- Settling Down
- Part Nine: The Unexpected
- 1965: Down Under
- 1965: Reorient
- National History
- Revolutions
- East Asian Focus
- Take a Break
- Wrapping Up
- Epilogue: Home is Where We Are
- Appendix: Writings Related to My Malaya Home
- Index